Shloka 25

कर्मयोग–ज्ञानयज्ञ–अवतारोपदेश

Karma-Yoga, Jñāna-Yajña, and Avatāra Instruction

Devanagari script

भीष्मपर्वणि तु पञ्चविंशो5ध्याय:ः

Transliteration

avyakto ’yam acintyo ’yam avikāryo ’yam ucyate | tasmād evaṁ viditvainaṁ nānuśocitum arhasi ||

Translation

三阇耶说：“此真我被称为未显（avyakta），不可思议，且不受变异。故如是了知之后，你不应为它而悲恸。”在战场的伦理处境中，此教诲将阿周那从执著于身躯损失的哀伤中引回，安住于真我不坏之性，促其明辨职责而不致内心崩溃。

Word by Word

• अव्यक्तः: unmanifest
• अव्यक्तः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अव्यक्त
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अयम्: this (one)
• अयम्: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: इदम्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अचिन्त्यः: inconceivable
• अचिन्त्यः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अचिन्त्य
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अयम्: this (one)
• अयम्: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: इदम्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अविकार्यः: unchangeable; not subject to modification
• अविकार्यः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अविकार्य
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अयम्: this (one)
• अयम्: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: इदम्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• उच्यते: is said; is called
• Type: Verb
• Root: वच्
• Form: Present, Third, Singular, Atmanepada, Passive

• तस्मात्: therefore; from that
• तस्मात्: Apadana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Ablative, Singular

• एवम्: thus; in this way
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एवम्

• विदित्वा: having known
• Type: Verb
• Root: विद्
• Form: Absolutive (Gerund), Active

• एनम्: this (one); him/it
• एनम्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: एतद्
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• न: not
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न

• अनुशोचितुम्: to grieve (after); to lament
• Type: Verb
• Root: अनु-शुच्
• Form: Infinitive (Tumun)

• अर्हसि: you ought; you are fit
• Type: Verb
• Root: अर्ह्
• Form: Present, Second, Singular, Parasmaipada

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sanjaya
• Atman (Self)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The Self (Ātman) is unmanifest, inconceivable, and unchangeable; therefore grief based on the idea of its destruction is misplaced. Right understanding steadies the mind and supports righteous action without despair.

What is happening in the narrative?

Within the Bhīṣma Parva’s battlefield discourse, Sanjaya reports the teaching that reframes Arjuna’s sorrow: the true Self is not altered by death or change, so lamentation is not warranted.